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Heart-broken Expressions
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“The snow is beginning to fall, it is winter. I will spare you the shroud, it is simply the snow. The poor are suffering. The landlords often do not understand that. On this December day in Paris, the pedestrians hasten more than usual, having no desire to stroll. Among them is a bizarrely outfitted shivering man who is hurrying to reach the outer boulevards. He is wrapped in a sheepskin coat, with a cap that is undoubtedly of rabbit fur and he has a bristling red beard. He looks like a drover. Do not take a mere half-look; cold as it is, do not go on your way without carefully examining the white graceful hands and those blue eyes so clear, so childlike. It is some poor beggar, surely. His name is Vincent van Gogh.” (Gauguin) Here, his beloved friend Gauguin, who is also an artist, describes Vincent placing him in a miserable scene. But he is not to be blamed for depicting such a depressing portrayal of this Dutch post-impressionist artist who could sell only one of his paintings while he was alive. Van Gogh was the man of extremes, a brain at the boiling point, who compensated for the painful outer world with exaggerated colors and forms in his work. While living on the border of chaos and insanity in a tragic search of his lost identity, what characterizes Van Gogh’s art is its violence of expression, its excess of strength with plenty of sunlight, and feeling of sobriety in a dizziness of drunken consciousness. Vincent van Gogh’s life begins in the town of Groot-Zundert in the Netherlands, as the child of Theodorus van Gogh, a pastor, and Anna Cornelia Carbentus, daughter of a book dealer.
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Title: Heart-broken Expressions
Words: 1436
Rating: None
Pages: 5.7
submitted by: estella
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